Welcome to my new blog! Why the name "lover of Truth"? Well, the purpose of this blog is to be a medium through which I might be able to share my thoughts on philosophy and theology, mainly. As a Christian, it is my firm conviction that all truth is God's truth. It is consequently my desire to search for truth as a way of gaining better knowledge of the universe, and particularly its creator. I want to respect ideas by virtue of their claim to truth, and not my claim to the idea. In his Confessions, Augustine had scathing commentary on individuals who loved ideas because they were their own, and not because they were true. I do not wish to join them in that error. Therefore, as I grapple with questions and tensions within my mind, it is my intention that I will do so with genuine intellectual honesty, which is inseperable with a love of truth. This, in my estamation, is the fundamental purpose of philosophy: to gain a more comprehensive understanding of God's created order, and the principles through which He created it, so as to conform ourselves to that aspect of His design which He meant for us to embody, and of critical necessity, a relationship with Him through faith in the reconciliation acheived for us by Jesus Christ, who said "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me." To be a lover of truth, therefore, is to love Christ Himself, and to love Christ is to love the God of the universe, who created us for just this purpose.